The Castle of Andalusia is a 1782 comic opera

Comic opera

Comic opera denotes a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending.Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a new operatic genre, opera buffa, emerged as an alternative to opera seria...

 by John O'Keeffe with music by Samuel Arnold

Samuel Arnold

Samuel Arnold may refer to:*Samuel Arnold , English composer and organist*Samuel James Arnold , dramatist*Samuel Arnold , U.S. Representative from Connecticut...

. It was a heavily rewritten version of the 1781 work The Banditti which had been a failure.

The original run saw the work performed thirty nine times and it was revived on several occasions until 1817. It became a popular play for amateur dramatics and was performed by the Kilkenny

Kilkenny

Kilkenny is a city and is the county town of the eponymous County Kilkenny in Ireland. It is situated on both banks of the River Nore in the province of Leinster, in the south-east of Ireland...

 players, including many of the elite, with the writer Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death...

several times appearing in the role of Spado.